Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bloc was immediately attacked by many of the 70 members of the Labor Party's left-wing Tribune Group, which fears that some favorite socialist schemes will be vetoed by the Liberals. But last week's deal binds the two parties only until the end of the current parliamentary session in November. By then, Britain's economy is expected to improve, and Callaghan might be willing to risk a national election. Today, all opinion polls agree the Tories would win an election-although once in power, they would find it nearly impossible to deal with the unions...
Actually, no one really knew who had killed the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party as he was being driven to a meeting with party members. Slowing down at a corner to begin a steep climb 18 miles southeast of Beirut, the car was blocked by a Pontiac with an Iraqi license plate. Four men machine-gunned Jumblatt, his driver and his bodyguard; all three died almost immediately. The assassins sped away, crashed their car two miles down the road and hijacked a Fiat...
...paradoxical as his fractured society. Educated in law at the Sorbonne in Paris and at a Roman Catholic university in Beirut, he fought throughout his career to revise the antiquated sectarian political system whereby Lebanese Christians automatically held the balance of power in the government. Although Jumblatt was a Socialist, and a Moscow favorite who won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1972, he owned vast tracts of land and opposed Communism. Revered by the Druzes as their secular leader, he studied Buddhism, Hinduism and Christian theology and regarded himself as a mystic. Shortly before his death, in fact, Jumblatt...
...newly formed Assembly for the Republic. At a preelection rally in Paris' cavernous Palais des Sports, 5,000 Chirac supporters cheered wildly as the Gaullist mayoralty candidate reiterated his two campaign pledges: "Only we can govern Paris! Only we can build a dike to contain the Socialist-Communist tide!" In the first of two rounds of nationwide municipal elections last week, Chirac won enough support virtually to assure his election as mayor. But outside the capital, he barely managed to keep his finger in the dike. Socialists and Communists, running on a combined ticket, in many areas routed candidates...
Ismael traces the evolution of leftist political organization from the Arab nationalist movement of the pre-World War II era--essentially an elitist, liberalist, Western-looking intellectual discipline--to the growth of socialist doctrine in the Arab world. He is careful to dissociate Arab "socialism" and "communism" from their terminological counterparts elsewhere. Arab socialists have often advocated private ownership (albeit regulated) as necessary for economic development; Arab communists have been wary of aligning themselves with communist states, preferring instead to regard Marxist-Leninist dogma as a malleable, practical tool for national progress and liberation rather than as an ideological ultimate...